Aranyer Din Ratri

Aranyer Din Ratri
A poster for Aranyer Din Ratri
Directed bySatyajit Ray
Screenplay bySatyajit Ray
Based onOriginal novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay
StarringSoumitra Chatterjee
Subhendu Chatterjee
Samit Bhanja
Rabi Ghosh
Kaberi Bose
Aparna Sen
Sharmila Tagore
Simi Garewal
CinematographySoumendu Roy
Edited byDulal Dutta
Music bySatyajit Ray
Release dates
  • 16 January 1970 (1970-01-16) (India)
  • 14 March 1973 (1973-03-14) (USA)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali

Aranyer Din Ratri (অরণ্যের দিনরাত্রি Araṇyēra Dinarātri; English: Days and Nights in the Forest) is an Indian Bengali adventure drama film released in 1970, written and directed by Satyajit Ray. It is based upon the Bengali novel of the same name by Sunil Gangopadhyay. It employs the literary technique of the carnivalesque.[1] The film was nominated for the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.[2] A sequel Abar Aranye directed by Goutam Ghose was released in 2003.

  1. ^ Cooper, Darius (Spring–Summer 1999). "The Carnivalesque in Satyajit Ray's Nights and Days in the Forest (1970)". Asian Cinema. 10 (2): 145–150. doi:10.1386/ac10.2.145_3.
  2. ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Aranyer Din Ratri". imdb.com. Retrieved 8 March 2010.